We are a non-profit organization
that uses innovation to educate and raise awareness

Why?

To make a fun and stimulating path to a more conscious and sustainable world.

How?

Within a process of collaborative work, we identify social or environmental challenges and create solutions for them.

What?

We design and develop tools and creative experiences for the fields of education and awareness building: games, workshops, e-training, Web-based platforms...... and we continue to innovate!

History

Smilemundo was born in the year 2011 in Barcelona. At first, we were committed to crowdfunding and we launched a platform to raise funds so that small organizations in the third sector could forge ahead with their projects.

After two years of intense work and after having acquired funds for more than 20 organizations, we have realized that education is the main pillar for the creation of a society based on sustainable development. For this reason, we have decided to now focus all our efforts, technological knowledge and creativity in the development of educational tools that serve to promote social values through play and innovation.

The first project we have developed within this line is the SmileUrbo game. It has been very well recognized and has received international awards. However, the most important thing for us is to ensure how our tools can stimulate participants to become aware of their role as citizens, stimulating them to be co-creators of a more responsible and sustainable world.

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SmileUrbo

SmileUrbo is an interactive role playing game designed to teach players about real world social and environmental challenges. Through group participation and decision-making, the players learn collaboration, win-win negotiation, and conflict resolution.

Online training for NGOs

The objective of this project is to offer to organizations the knowledge on how to carry out successful online campaigns.

The training, which lasts about seven weeks, can be accessed online for free. We hope that nonprofits take the most out of it!

Team

Aleksandra Zemke

Founder and Director

Responsible for strategy, project development and fundraising. My goal is to lead and to coordinate the team in such a way that they reach their maximum creativity and effectiveness, but always having in mind the social impact as a priority. Master of Social Sciences, with Specialization in Resolution of Conflicts and Sustainable Development.

Rebeca Febrer

Communication Manager

I am in charge of communication of the entity. With my work I contribute to dissemination and visibility to the projects of Smilemundo. My goal is to find the channels and most effective tools to deliver our messages to audiences which constitute the social sector and non-profit. A degree in journalism, specializing in social communication.

Matylda Zawadzka

Leading Designer

I develop the visual part of each project. My goal is that the projects of Smilemundo have, in addition to a social purpose, a level of design and usability as high as the for profit projects. A Master’s in Social Sciences, and I have also studied design illustration.

Thanks

Since the beginning, we have been co-creating Smilemundo with more than 100 coworkers and volunteers, from all parts of the world.

We want to especially thank the members of our Board of Directors, Mariola Szek and Justyna Tinc, and the Foundation iWith.org, for helping us to achieve our project take off.

Thanks to all the contributors and volunteers and the work you do to make Smilemundo possible!

More than 4,000 employees of the Catalan public administration will attend the ‘Introduction to the Sustainable Development Goals’ course, with the aim of acquiring general knowledge about the 17 SDGs established by the UN, so that they can apply them in their day to day life, both in the professional and personal field.

In April around 170 students of the Governance and Inclusive Development Studies of the University of Amsterdam will play our SmileUrbo role-playing game. The purpose of the activity is to let the students, through the simulation, learn to represent and defend a specific role within a certain conflict.